Director, Procurement Categories

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopedics business to establish a standalone orthopedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes. 

Job Overview 

This role is accountable for leading global procurement for Business Services categories, including Fleet, Travel & Meetings; Human Resource Services; Corporate Services; Professional Education & Access; and Information Technology. Will develop the strategy, and implementation plan for these categories to meet the long-range requirements of the business and deliver maximum value for DePuy Synthes (DPS), as well as leading Business Engagement across International Markets. 

Operating in a complex, matrixed global environment, the role has a key accountability for Business Engagement, and ensuring Procurement strategy is executed across Internal markets.   The Business Engagement responsibility entails a close partnership with senior business leaders, Business Engagement Leads, Global Services, Finance, Legal, IT, HR, Risk/Compliance, and DPS Service Delivery to ensure efficient end-to-end management of sourcing, contracting, and requisition-to-pay activities.  

Scope & Impact 

·       Global category ownership for Business Services and IT Categories.  

·       Accountable for category strategy, sourcing execution, supplier performance, and continuous improvement across the spend base (approximately \$0.XB). 

·       Leads and develops a global category team and enables cross-functional teams through governance, stakeholder management, and change leadership. 

·       Key contributor to the DPS Procurement Leadership Team, helping drive enterprise performance and an inclusive, high-engagement culture. 

Key Responsibilities 

Category Vision, Strategy & Planning 

• Develop the vision, strategy, and implementation plan for the Business Services categories to meet long-range business requirements and deliver maximum value. 

• Translate business and sector strategies into integrated, multi-year category roadmaps supported by market intelligence, demand analytics, and total cost of ownership (TCO) modeling. 

• Identify industry and workforce trends that should be embedded into category strategies to strengthen capability, resilience, and employee experience. 

Procurement Execution & Value Delivery 

• Develop and execute procurement strategies aligned to business and sector needs; ensure clear value cases, stakeholder alignment, and disciplined execution. 

• Ensure end-to-end execution of category strategies including sourcing, competitive bidding, negotiations, contracting, implementation, and supplier transition/change management. 

• Deliver performance against established targets across the balanced scorecard (financial value, service, reliability, quality, risk, sustainability, and stakeholder satisfaction) and drive continuous improvement. 

• Partner with DPS Service Delivery to ensure efficient and effective requisition-to-pay adoption, contracting intake, compliance, and operational performance. 

International Stakeholder & Leadership Engagement 

• Develop and drive the procurement vision throughout the stakeholder community; communicate strategies, decisions, and progress with executive-level clarity. 

• Build and maintain relationships across J&J to enable dynamic dialogue and input critical to optimal approaches and solutions. 

• Understand long-range business requirements and engage in strategic planning and partnering to ensure alignment; identify demand requirements and partner with Business Engagement Leads to deliver annual value improvements and competitive advantage. 

• Interface with partner organizations including Operational  Services, Finance, and Legal to ensure governance, controls, and effective cross-functional delivery. 

Supplier Relationship, Performance & Innovation 

• Develop deep relationships with strategic suppliers supported by data review and analysis, performance management, end-to-end value delivery, and innovation pipelines. 

• Interface directly with supplier leadership to ensure objectives are met, including quality, reliability, innovation, and cost outcomes. 

• Manage supplier relationships, execute joint collaborative initiatives, monitor performance, and drive resolution of issues to protect business continuity and service levels. 

Portfolio, Governance & Risk Escalation 

• Identify, develop, and direct the implementation of procurement goals and category strategies based on deep subject matter expertise and industry/market dynamics. 

• Manage and prioritize a portfolio of procurement initiatives; define governance, milestones, and decision forums to ensure value capture and transparent trade-offs. 

• Escalate issues that may impact the Global Procurement organization, including supplier risk, compliance concerns, service disruption, and strategic misalignment. 

• Facilitate the development, implementation, and maintenance of processes, policies, guidelines, standard operating procedures, and business operating principles. 

People Leadership 

• Lead a team; set direction, clarify accountabilities, and coach leaders to deliver results. 

• Build and sustain organizational capability in category management, negotiation, supplier management, analytics, and change leadership; attract, retain, and develop diverse talent. 

• Create a high-engagement environment with clear expectations, inclusive leadership behaviors, and strong performance management. 

Qualifications & Education 

• Master’s degree or equivalent preferred. Bachelor’s degree required (Technical degree preferred) 

• 10+ years Comprehensive knowledge of and extensive experience with procurement business processes, practices and technology, including cross-functional and cross-geographic, team-based global category management, global technology deployment, best practices in social/economic and environmental strategies and preferably from similar or comparable industries. 

• Clear understanding and demonstrated mastery of contemporary, best practice processes, systems, techniques, and KPI’s for supply chain/procurement are required. 

• Experience in a product oriented, sales/marketing driven culture is required. Additionally, experience in a large, multi-national corporate environment would be useful. 

• Proven track record of transforming and leading global procurement organizations in a complex, matrixed environment. 

• Demonstrated expertise in supplier-driven innovation, category management, and operational excellence. 

• Strong business acumen and ability to translate enterprise strategy into actionable procurement initiatives. 

• Experience managing large-scale spend and third-party payments across diverse categories. 

• Exceptional leadership, talent development, and organizational building skills. 

• Advanced knowledge of procurement technologies, process optimization, and payment processing. 

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders. 

Skills and Capabilities 

• Ability to build and inspire a talented team of procurement professionals with a strong service, partnering and delivery orientation. 

• Ability to work collaboratively in a large multi business units’ environment across multiple lines of business, create teams and direct others toward a common purpose. 

• Proven ability to establish partnerships internally and externally. 

• Proven ability to create supply and supplier strategies. 

• Ability to develop total cost of ownership and total systems value thinking and models. 

• Ability to link external market conditions to internal opportunities. 

• Ability to create enthusiasm and commitment and drive changes. 

• Ability to solve complex problems and search for the “right solution”. 

• Ability to travel independently to domestic and international business locations, understanding cultural business issues and requirements. 

• Excellent supplier negotiation skills. 

• Financial analysis skills. 

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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